The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas established the Globalization Institute in 2007 for the purpose of better understanding how the process of deepening economic integration between the countries of the world, or globalization, alters the environment in which U.S. monetary policy decisions are made.

Dallas Fed Announces Executive Promotion at San Antonio Branch

DALLAS—Keith Phillips has been promoted to senior economic policy advisor at the San Antonio Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Phillips joined the Dallas Fed in 1984 as an economic analyst. In 1996, he moved to the San Antonio Branch to enhance the Bank’s regional economic coverage in South Texas.

Phillips developed business-cycle indexes for Texas and its major metro areas, which he uses to analyze business conditions in those regions. He is a contributing member of the Western Blue Chip Economic Forecasting Group, where he has been the most accurate Texas forecaster for eight out of the past 13 years.

Phillips teaches courses in managerial economics and quantitative analysis at the executive MBA program at UTSA.

Phillips holds a Ph.D. in economics from Southern Methodist University. He also holds a B.A. and M.A. in economics and a bachelor’s of journalism degree in news/editorial from the University of Missouri at Columbia.